In The Children's Book Business, Lissa Paul constructs a new kind
of book biography. By focusing on Eliza Fenwick's1805
product-placement novel, Visits to the Juvenile Library, in the
context of Marjorie Moon's 1990 bibliography, Benjamin Tabart's
Juvenile Library, Paul explains how twenty-first century cultural
sensibilities are informed by late eighteenth-century attitudes
towards children, reading, knowledge, and publishing. The thinking,
knowing children of the Enlightenment, she argues, are models for
present day technologically-connected, socially-conscious children;
the increasingly obsolete images of Romantic innocent and ignorant
children are bracketed between the two periods. By drawing on
recent scholarship in several fields including book history,
cultural studies, and educational theory, The Children's Book
Business provides a detailed historical picture of the landscape of
some of the trade practices of early publishers, and explains how
they developed in concert with the progressive pedagogies of
several female authors, including Eliza Fenwick, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Anna Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, and Ann and Jane
Taylor. Paul's revisionist reading of the history of children's
literature will be of interest to scholars working in
eighteenth-century studies, book history, childhood studies,
cultural studies, educational history, and children's literature.
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